Mandaree (Mckenzie County)

This is a community founded in 1954 in Section 14-149-94, thirty miles
east-southeast of Watford City, as the Western Segment Sub-Agency for the Fort
Berthold Indian Reservation, and was intended to be a home for those people
displaced by the rising backwaters of the Garrison Dam. The name was suggested
by Father Reinhard Kauffman, a longtime Roman Catholic missionary on the
reservation, using parts of the names of the three affiliated tribes
here-MANdan, HiDAtsa, and REE, or Arikara. The post office was established May
20, 1955 with Mrs. Beatrice E. Balliet as acting Postmaster. Her appointment
became official July 1, 1955. The Zip Code is 58757, and a population of 115 was
reported in 1960.(2, 3, 28, 33, 40, 289)